[Context and Motivation] Development of innovative ICT-based applications is a complex process involving collaboration of all relevant disciplines. This complexity arises due to differences in terminology, knowledge and often also the ways of working between developers in the disciplines involved. [Question/problem] Advances in each discipline bring a rich design environment of theories, models...

− Measurement results provide important information about the measured objects. In industrial application, this is used to inspect products and control processes. To enable reliable statements based on the measurement results, all concerned employees need sufficient competences to fulfil their specific tasks, e.g. a correct execution of the measurement task, but also a proper interpretation of ...

PLANDoc, a system under joint development by Columbia and Bellcore, documents the activity of planning engineers as they study telephone routes. It takes as input a trace of the engineer’s interaction with a network planning tool and produces 1-2 page summary. In this paper, we describe the user needs analysis we performed and how it influenced the development of PLANDoc. In particular, we show...

Reliability in decision making about intervention plans is a necessary condition for evidence-based probation work and equal treatment of offenders. Structuring decision making can improve agreement between clinical decision makers. In a former study however, we found that in Dutch probation practice structured risk and needs assessment did not result in acceptable agreement about intervention ...

The authors are developing a pilot project for a Municipality in the North of Portugal, envisaging the definition and implementation of an e-marketplace for healthcare and social services, in order to facilitate the interaction between healthcare and social services professionals and people with special needs (or their relatives). Based on the results of a survey on user needs analysis and expe...

Physical geography continues to have complex relationships both with Geography as a whole and the natural sciences. At time when nature future of physical its sub-disciplines has been questioned, I explore these changing their impacts on discipline itself our collective ability understand address environmental crises. The exploration is through themes disciplinary shape institutional change, ge...

Contrary to claims about the irrelevance of philosophy for science, I argue that has had, and still has, far more influence on physics than is commonly assumed. maintain current anti-philosophical ideology had damaging effects fertility science. also suggest recent important empirical results, such as detection Higgs particle gravitational waves, failure detect supersymmetry where many expected...